Example sentences of "a [noun sg] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of higher education as ‘ liberal ’ turns into a fiction so long as courses are determined solely by the introverted stance of the student 's core discipline . |
| 2 | And lastly , are you an optimist or a pessimist so far as the future 's concerned ? |
| 3 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |
| 4 | Do you think women are at a disadvantage so far as this computer age is concerned ? |
| 5 | The wire is generally fastened to the bracelet with a popper so even if she forgets about it and walks away from her machine with it still attached , it will just pop apart . |
| 6 | What we have to build is a universe so manifestly and intrinsically unjust that its inhabitants can not fail to rebel against it . |
| 7 | Enid Nightshade , the new girl who arrived last term and was now their friend , came zooming over the treetops and screeched to a halt so forcefully that her cat and suitcase shot off the back , and Maud and Mildred had to leap out of the way to avoid being run over . |
| 8 | by the loading or unloading of a vehicle so far as concerns loading or unloading risk cover by a Motor Policy ; or |
| 9 | Indeed , they may be able to help the would-be Texas traveller by uncovering the fact that Philadelphia or New Hampshire may be more productive places to seek a placement to seek a placement so far as child abuse is concerned . |
| 10 | But I thought if that 's how they run a business So then when they , they moved house I realized they were using an ordinary saucepan to do their chips in and I had visions of fat boiling over and cos it 's gas so I bought them one a very nice deep fryer as a housewarming present . |
| 11 | This suspension can absorb a bump so quickly that the driver hardly senses it , yet it still keeps him in perfect control of the car . |
| 12 | Only the dull earth can purify me , contact with all else is a defilement so far as I am concerned . |
| 13 | I 've always found the men that I 've worked with either it has made no difference that I was a woman so far as I was aware , or else they 've been very helpful . |
| 14 | Staff at the hospital had been amazed they had found a donor so quickly and her husband was overwhelmed by the speed of the events . |
| 15 | Then , in a movement so fast that Isabel had to replay it later in her mind to sort everything out , fitzAlan flung his cloak over the drunk on his left and brought his sword slashing through the air to slice through the arm of the man on his right . |
| 16 | Members of the resident stage crew wandered round , looking at their watches and making dark remarks about amateurism and provincial rep. and the folly of trying to bring in a show so quickly and the unlikelihood of its being presentable in time for the Monday night preview . |
| 17 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 18 | I knew I would never finish a book so long as I was on the North Shore , either . |
| 19 | I 've always wanted to work in a bank so even if I had n't have had Louisa it 's basically what I 'd have gone on to do anyway . |
| 20 | It 's said he can geld and cauterise a pony so expertly and swiftly there 's hardly time for blood to spill . ’ |
| 21 | Few historians , admittedly , have sought to criticize the attempt to democratize a country so clearly and grossly racked by inequality , though most have quite reasonably stressed the unavoidable difficulties that such an attempt posed . |
| 22 | As for Selene , she was left a hundred pounds a year so long as she continued under her sister 's direction . |
| 23 | I will pay you £5000 a year so long as you remain unmarried . ’ |
| 24 | He would be well advised to insist on a written indemnity in that respect to cover both intentional and accidental holding out , and , as regards the latter , to cover his accidentally holding himself out as a partner so long as that is done in the course of carrying out his duties for and in the interests of the firm . |
| 25 | I informed Mr Kagan that I was something of a heretic so far as the minutiae of the Jewish faith were concerned ; on the other hand , I said , I had never concealed that I was a loyal member of the faith , and so I would be happy to have the boy to tea and talk to him about Judaism in general terms . |
| 26 | He had only one candle which was not powerful enough to start such a blaze so quickly whilst the fire was whitened ash . ’ |
| 27 | It was pretence , Cecilia knew , for no one could help feeling an embarrassment so deep as to amount to actual dumb fear in the face of such a performance . |
| 28 | Quine says of this theory that ‘ one has no choice but to be an empiricist so far as one 's theory of linguistic meaning is concerned ’ ( Quine , 1969 , p. 81 ) . |